SHEETING WAX

Take two cakes of the best white wax and melt slowly in an earthen vessel ; when melted stir in a large teaspoonful of balsam of fir, and a finger-length of " silver white," such as comes in tubes for oil painting, squeezing it from the tube into the melted wax. Have a basin of clean, warm soapsuds at hand and a plate of clean, smooth glass, which should be in the soapsuds for some time, as should the small ladle or spoon for throwing the melted wax gently over the glass plate for sheeting. Another way is to melt the wax, using several cakes of pure white in a vessel of hot water, adding balsam of fir and "silver white" in propor- tion to quantity ; keep a junk bottle ready in a basin of warm soapsuds; when the wax is ready dip your bottle, holding it by the neck, quickly into the wax, up to its shoulder ; withdraw it quickly, and when the coating hardens, slit it from top to bottom, and a fine sheet of wax will slide off. As the wax cools in the vessel you will obtain thicker sheets; then melt ajfain.